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Chkdsk for a specific directory or File !?!? The Syntax
I need help to chkdsk a specific Directory : F:\GOG\*.*
I am too stupid to understand the chkdsk sytax for file:
CHKDSK [Volume[[Pfad]Dateiname]]] [/F] [/V] [/R] [/X] [/I] [/C] [/L[:Größe]][/B] [/scan]...
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Is chkdsk saying my entire drive is bad?
I recently ran an aggressive shredding program on a Toshiba external spinning drive, then a recovery program on it to check that the shredding worked, and then non-quick reformatted it with NTFS. I ...
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CHKDSK fails in Windows 10 but ok in Windows 7
I have an old SSHD (Hybrid) 2.5" drive from my old Macbook which I wanted to reuse. So I decided to backup its NTFS volumes on Windows 10 Home but when I mounted it complained that it needed to check ...
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External HD defrag stuck at 0% consolidated - due to discrepancy?
I have an Acer laptop running windows 10.
I have tried multiple times to defragment my external Hard Drive (Seagate) but every time it gets stuck 0% consolidated.
I have run CHKDSK and I am posting ...
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Disk Mirror Failed After Clean Windows Reformat
I don't remember the specification of my late windows 11 but my HDD disk was working perfectly fine despite not having been defrag for a couple of months.
Recently I reformatted my PC with a new ...
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Can I run chkdsk for different HDDs at the same time (external via USB)?
I want to run multiple chkdsk commands (for different HDDs)
at the same time.
All of them are external via USB.
I searched for this on Google, but there were few results
that were really relevant to ...
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Insufficient disk space to repair master file table
After I had to unplug my external HDD during copying on ubuntu, it became unreadable. I'd had this problem before and it can be fixed through chkdsk. But this time chkdsk failed with the following ...
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Identify file name(s) associated with chkdsk corrupt file record segments
I have a Dell XPS15, 32 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD, Windows 10.
The following are the results from CHKDSK read-only:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is OS.
WARNING! /F parameter not ...
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Is there any way to figure out which file is changed by chkdsk to replaced bad cluster?
I already posted similar question, but until nobody replied as solution of it. so i am trying to change the question as more detailed.
This is the last screen just before exiting chkdsk. There were ...
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CHKDISK on boot detects corrupt attribute records - what should we do now?
Running an 8-year old desktop PC with Windows 7, AMD Phenom II X4 965 Processor 3.40GHz, 4GB RAM, with a Samsung HD103SJ ATA hard disk (920Gb).
Used fairly lightly by one user for most of those 8 ...
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Output disparity on Chkdsk and Drive Properties
I recently noticed that one of my drives is having issues and I suspect it may be failing. Apps on this drive are slow to load (sometimes wont load at all and freeze), and any game that is on this ...
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Basic SSD disk corrupted after a clean Windows reformat
As the title stated, I've been using the disk (Adata SU650) for quite a long time and never had issues with it until lately I clean reformatted my PC and realized during the initial setup there's a ...
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Windows refuses to scan SSD disk
In the last weeks my Windows 10 pc has been throwing blue screens (Multiple times a day). Viewing the Event Viewer I've found that all crashes are related to this error:
So I run the chkdsk command ...
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Can resizing a partition give chkdsk more clusters for recovery?
chkdsk /f /r is showing "The disk does not have enough space to replace bad clusters". I know I need to replace the drive, but some files were not readable when I went to copy the data off. Would ...
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How and when to interrupt CHKDSK?
My Lenovo Z50 laptop has been giving me problems, so I set it to run CHKDSK /f /r /x when I rebooted.
Several hours later, it's stuck at 12%. The dots are circling, so I suspect I should let it ...
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Recurring portable drive error: 'The sparse flag in standard information attribute in file _______ is not set.'
I have a portable drive that often slows Windows 10 boot. When performing an error check on this drive as recommended after booting (Properties->Tools->Error checking), it will say errors were found ...
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Drive full after CHKDSK, but files don't add up
Last week, I was preparing to make a new partition (for Ubuntu alongside my current Windows) on my laptop, but never got that far. I ran chkdsk to make sure it was safe to partition the disk. I do ...
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CHKDSK finds no errors but drive keeps on failing
So here is the problem: I have an external disk that I use to store all the archived data, e.g. photos, movies, etc. The drive is formatted as NTFS, and checking the Disk Management tool from the ...
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Windows 8 hang on startup and chkdsk /f /r
Trying to fix a friends Lenovo p400 laptop. The drive is a samsung spin point one terabyte drive.
The system hangs during booting, will go into system recovery, or the uefi firmware settings screen.
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Is CHKDSK stalling?
I have a Lenovo Y510p running on Win8.1. I've tried running a CHKDSK on boot but power issues with the charger meant it died while it was running(11%).
I tried SHIFT+F8 to try restarting into safe ...
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Disk Error on a Dell Notebook with Windows 8.1 “The device, \Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block.”
Recently my computer freezes for minutes and after reboot I see in the Event Viewer many Errors such as "The device, \Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block."
I have run chkdsk c:/R/B and chkdsk c:/...
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So I found and marked some bad clusters—now what?
I don't know exactly why, but hard drive failure happens to me quite often. This time around, three out of my eight drives failed almost at the same time (two HDDs and one SSD).
I still don't know ...
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CHKDSK from a USB
I am currently on the GParted Live CD, and it is telling me that I have to run CHKDSK /f
I am more that happy to do that, but I cannot boot into windows, and I do not have a Windows Recovery disk ...
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Macbook pro hard drive not recognized by any means after using chkdsk /r on bootcamp
Good afternoon everyone,
Here is my headache:
I have (had?) a macbook pro late 2011 wtih bootcamp running in Win 7, the bootcamp partition started to give problems (corrupted data I recon) so I ...
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chkdsk won't work on secondary drive
I have a secondary drive in a USB caddy attached to my WinXP SP3 laptop.
Occasionally I will receive a system tray warning that the 2nd drive contains errors, and to run chkdsk.
The drive is NTFS, but ...
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XP CHKDSK finds error when run in OS or safe mode, but does not find errors using /F on restart
I have an XP system that reports "CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the volume bitmap" when CHKDSK is run from the normal XP environment or from command-line safe mode.
When I ...
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How to see all files affected by chkdsk?
A few weeks ago my home lost power while my computer is on. Recently I have encountered some problems.
So I did a full system check, I used SeaTools for Windows and all drives passed S.M.A.R.T check, ...
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Disk Malfunctioned But They All Disappeared - Is This Disk Still Trustworthy?
I have encountered a situation I have never seen before. I recently bought an Seagate One Touch 5TB external HDD, and to ensure it would store data properly, I tried to run chkdsk. However before that,...
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Disk became RAW after chkdsk operation
After chkdsk detected a wrong index entry and acted, a disk became RAW.
With diskpart, trying to clean it before formatting yields:
DISKPART> clean
DiskPart has encountered an error: The device is ...
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Win 10 CHKDSK /F /R /X skipping to login
Tried to run CHKDSK /F /R /X this morning, unfortunately, after restarting to begin the process I get the press any button to skip part (I don't press anything) and it moves onto repairing C drive, ...
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Unable to copy any file to external HDD
I have WD My Passport 4TB External Hard Drive. When I try to copy any file to WD HDD, it gives me error: "Cant read from the source file or disk". But I can copy any file in HDD to my laptop....
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How to fix the Data error (cyclic redundancy check) on a smartphone?
I regularly transfer data from my (Android) smartphone to my (Windows 10) PC / NAS. For that I simply connect th ePC and the smartphone via USB and cut&paste the files to the PC or directly to the ...
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DISKPART formatted the disk, CHKDSK takes forever
I have a Seagate external USB 1TB drive. It seemed to be working fine. As a routine maintenance, I did a CHKDSK /f /r on it. To my surprise, CHKDSK reported a lot of errors at stage 1, 2, 3, 4. Stage ...
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chkdsk An unspecified error occured (6c6f6766696c652e 2a9)
I ran the chkdsk /f command for my external Toshiba 2TB hard drive. It ran the first two stages just fine. However, gave an error at the 3rd Stage. Following is the output log from chkdsk at Stage 3 ...
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Check health of Set Top Box HDD
My Set Top Box is acting weird (image frozen after a while, specially if I rewind a transmission) so I suspect it's the HDD that could be faulty and because of the Coronavirus pandemic I don't want to ...
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How many reparse records are a lot?
My computer is acting strangely, slowing and freezing or partially freezing (some applications but not all) fairly often; it has blue screened 3 times in three weeks; I had at least one NTFS error. I ...
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The file or Directory is corrupted and unreadable - chkdsk not working
Unintentionally powered off external HDD when moving some files with the move command. Now the move target folder is "The file or Directory is corrupted and unreadable".
chkdsk E: /f /r /x
Failed ...
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Cannot run Parallels Transporter Agent due to disk errors
I'm trying to clone my old Windows 7 machine to a Parallels VM image, but the Parallels Transporter Agent refuses to work because of disk errors.
I've run chkdsk c: /R /F multiple times, but every ...
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One of the partitions of my hard drive shows its empty after booting after a forced shutdown,
TL;DR: Computer was forces shut down, came back to an empty drive (the other partition of that same disk is fine) but the properties window says its 899GB / 1TB used, tried chkdsk and all can't seem ...
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"chkdsk /r" to confirm no error OR "chkdsk /f" to avoid heavy loading to HDD?
Recently I got "Reallocation Event Count" (C4) warning in SMART test for my notebook harddisk(HDD). I've cloned the whole HDD sector-by-sector to a brand new one using a external HDD docking.
Then I ...
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Disk doesn't format, chkdsk hangs after "The type of the file system is FAT32"
I bought a brand new USB stick. Because I needed a file on it bigger than 4 GB, I had to reformat it. So I attempted that. The progress bar stood grey for 10 minutes before I gave up.
Assuming ...
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Is there a way to recover bad sectors in Windows 8.1?
I have a drive that is going bad. chkdsk /r fails to repair the sectors. It gets stuck at 16% for hours upon boot, and finally gives a blue screen saying I have to use recovery media. However, it will ...
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Windows 10: most data hidden in "other files" after hard disk crash
After a bad case of hard disk crash, I copied over all readable data using dd to an identical disk, then ran chkdsk /F /X until it said that there is nothing left to repair.
Unfortunately I couldn't ...
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CHKDSK reports drive is RAW when its not
How is it possible that chkdsk thinks a drive is raw when its not?
I would like to check this drive but am unable to.
Trying to checkdisk from the gui:
Here we can see windows thinks E: is a ...
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Transcend 1TB could not complete chkdsk
I have 1TB Transcend External HDD around 2 years old. In the HDD, there are 3 Partition:-
i) Local Disk (J:) [~90GB] - exFAT
ii) Local Disk (E:) [~400GB] - NTFS
iii) Local Disk (H:) [~488GB] - NTFS
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chkdsk starts on every boot and alot of files got corrupted
Last week my system hdd (1tb) got bricked so, i replaced it with a new one (2tb), that's not a problem at all, the problem with my data hdd (4tb --> 1 partition), windows do chkdsk on that hdd on ...
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Files on my secondary hard disk keep disappearing and can be recovered with CHKDSK /F, but CHKDSK /R and SMART find nothing wrong
My desktop has an SSD (840 Evo) as my boot drive and a 3TB WD Red as my data storage drive. I recently reinstalled Windows 10 on my desktop because it was becoming pretty bloated, and since then I've ...
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How much resources does Chkdsk (formatting) use?
I just received an RMA'd 4TB Red hard drive replacement. I'm thinking I should run a full format (i.e. fully chkdsking it) to verify the drive and flag any bad sectors, especially since RMAs are ...
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Win 7 Login automatically logs me off after running CHKDSK
I'm currently running Win 7 Enterprise and I have 2 hard drives. I ran a CHKDSK on both drives. The process took about 7 hours to complete. Once it completed it brought me to the login-screen. I ...
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Can not access to Hard Drive in Windows 7
I have a old laptop HDD, which i have plugged into my laptop using a HDD Adapter via USB. Now the Hard disk is visible on computer management in windows 7 but not in the explorer.
Now from the ...
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